ENGL 361 - Early American Literatures

Credits: (3)
This course studies the cultural productions of settler, indigenous, and enslaved Americans in response to European contact and colonization, imperial expansion, and early national independence. The course considers historical accounts and reportage, philosophical and theological polemics, legends, essays, poetry, drama, and fiction. Major figures studied may include John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Washington Irving, and Black Hawk.